Hi all,

I just received my first TinyTV2 product, so far the only thing I have done is use the converter app (Windows 11) to convert a movie to the .avi format for the TinyTV2. I converted "The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring EXTENDED (2001)" which has a runtime of 3h48m. The converted file has the full runtime when I play it on my desktop but the TinyTV2 always restarts it around the 2 hour mark (right before they get into the Mines of Moria for you fellow LOTR fans).

The TinyTV2 shows as not even being half full, the .avi file for my movie is about 2.5GB, the TinyTV2 has 8GB capacity.

Is this by design? I know nearly 4 hours is a very long video and I will probably just split the video in two if I want to play the rest of it.

Let me know if anyone else has experienced this issue with longer (2h+) videos.

Thanks!

Can you figure out exactly what timestamp it restarts at?  2 hours doesn't seem to correspond to anything in particular, in terms of seconds or frames or audio samples, other than maybe a 1 GB filesize....

The longest file I've tried is 1.5 hours and I haven't noticed any trouble, but I was planning to add something longer myself soon so I would like to know where this stands.

I haven't reproduced it on my end yet, but if anyone is curious to experiment, here's two four-hour timestamped test files, with different bitrates to rule out whether it's about timestamps or bytes:  http://img.ravenworks.ca/download/TinyTV-Test-4h.zip

I can say, with it set to start at a random point, I've absolutely seen it play video past the 2-hour mark, so maybe it's more about the TinyTV having been *on* four two hours, than about it reaching the 2-hour mark in the file?

I just tested a 7 hour and 51 minute video file that I made.   It plays the video with no problem.  BUT, It doesn't seem to want to do the start at a random point in the video.   I have 3 video files on the TV 2.  7 hours 51 minutes,  10 hours 38 minutes, and 9 hours 49 minutes.   They all play, but they all start at the beginning, both when I boot the device, and when I do a channel change.   For the record, each video file is 2.96 gigs, 3.95 gigs, and 3.66 gigs.   

Not sure if having such large video files breaks the random time playback.   But, the files DO work.   They just start at the beginning every time.  Hope I can figure out how I can get the random point to work.